re: Competition for College Admissions in Texas is unreal

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Supa, is there any discernible difference between Cinco Ranch, Tombkins, and Seven Lakes? They all seem to be nearly identical as the top public in the greater Houston area along with Clements in Sugarland. Other than zoning, of course.

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CR (1999) is the oldest of the "new" Katy ISD schools
Morton (2004)
Seven Lakes (2005)
Tompkins (2013)
Paetow (2017)

CR has the best athletics of the rest of the KISD (after Katy HS of course)

Seven Lakes has the best academics and highest concentration of wealth right now

Tompkins will be right there with SLHS for best academics once the schools is old enough to be ranked.

Paetow is the HS in the new Cross Creek Ranch that could be the best of them all of the HS's in KISD

Clements has a sky high East Asian population (54%) that pushes their performance numbers up

the numbers arent that are hard to understand if you drill into them.

say there are ~3500 kids at Tompkins and 20% of them are Asians - Eastern and Central. That is 700 kids. For arguments sake lets say that 50% of them are high achievers - that is 350 kids in four classes. So roughly 80 kids in each class are Asian high achiever types that blow the doors off the GPA/Rank/test scores. Add in there are upper middle class white kids, kids with Euro/Russian parents and a fair amount of kids with African parents and it isnt hard to see where a kid with a 3.97 is 210 out of 788

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I am just amazed at the number of people who are either able to find a job that is based that far out from Houston or are willing to do the commute if they are working downtown or the Galleria.

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Westpark Tollway and Katy Freeway HOV lane were a game changer

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Seems to be that the obvious choice for you is to have your daughter go to UTSA for a year and then move to Austin. What’s the gpa requirement to make the transfer official?

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yeah, or LSU. Need a 3.2 GPA at UTSA to get in to UT-Austin from CAP

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I know some dudes that graduated in 08 but i get the impression you are older

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But I have two younger brothers that graduated in 05 and 08. The 08 went to LSU.

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We live in NW Houston and have pretty good schools here as well.

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There are like 9 high schools in Cypress. It is unreal. Our kids will be going to Bridgeland which I’m sure will be crazy competitive


What’s this Texas Tiger thing? I got my out of state waved when I went to lsu based on being the kid of an alum and got more for my grades. Is it similar?

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Out kids will be going to Bridgeland.

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We are in Copperfield, but kids are too far out for schooling. I like it over there in Bridgeland as well. I like how its laid out and nice homes.

Tomball is building schools like crazy, another 227Million being used to build more. Have a lot of diversity here but in Tomball, not so diverse, but it's rapidly growing with a lot of nice subdivisions.

we considered BAMA very closely, and fandom had nothing to do with it, BAMA is just too far away

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That being said my son went through this same thing last year. He didn’t get into Texas but he did get auto accepted into Texas A&M. He chose to go to UT-Dallas

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He chose... wisely.



And the 7% rule is ruining UT Austin anyway.

I’ve read enough in this thread to feel even better about our plan to stay in central Houston as our kids age (oldest is only 3rd grade). Someone hit the nail on the head earlier... these high-achieving suburban high schools prepare you exceedingly well for a (in state school) that will likely be unavailable to you because of a numbers game .

So long as my kids can attend a HS that is safe, and surround themselves with a group of like-minded people, they should have no problem getting top 10%, 5%, etc. I’m not naive and certainly realize there are large trade-offs to going this route. They could end up with neck tats.
But I’ve been around enough to see that you can get good education that will prepare you for college at almost any HS if you want it and are willing to use the resources available. So much of that comes from home and positive influence of peers rather than the school itself.

Yeah its all pretty amazing. My son is in Middle School and is taking three high school classes already. There is definitely a ton of competition in the schools. I am not sure he will go to LSU, it just doesn't make financial sense since they did away with the alumni out of state waver. He would still qualify for the Texas Tiger Scholarship, but to pay twice what it would cost to go to UT it doesn't make sense. HE may end up at Texas State or UT if he can't get additional scholarships.

It’s like the HOPE scholarship in Georgia